Saudi AI company Echelon raises funding for enterprise and government deployments
Saudi AI company Echelon raised an undisclosed funding round from East40, RAED Ventures and Avra, alongside Ben Horowitz and other investors, Arab News reported. The capital will support AI deployments across Saudi enterprises and...
Pays accounts used "123456" during Danish civil registry breach
At least three accounts at Danish IT company Pays used the password "123456" when hackers accessed Denmark's central civil registration database, Politiken reported, including an administrator account. The breach exposed informati...
One-gram DirectHop robot demonstrates adjustable jumps and self-righting
University of Washington researchers have built a one-gram hopping robot that adjusts jump energy by changing the current supplied to its motor, New Atlas reported. The DirectHop prototype can clear a standard stair and make small...
Cloudflare acquires Deno, a rival in developer infrastructure
Cloudflare is buying Deno, the startup co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, The New Stack reported. Deno had developed an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers, making the acquisition a purchase of a longtime competito...
Bitwarden plans commercial builds for app stores starting next release
Bitwarden says its apps distributed through stores will use commercially licensed builds starting with the next release. Current features will remain available in both the commercial and GPLv3 open-source versions, and users will ...
Easy Fox says AI bills exceed $1,000 a day for free Steam demo
Easy Fox says it has taken out a bank loan to keep its free Steam demo, Teach My Little Sister How To Drive, running as AI service costs exceed $1,000 per day. The developer says the number of players trying the game has grown ove...